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﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿(31 December 2018 - 2 January 2019) WHO Director-General concludes New Year visit to Ebola-affected areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the main challenges are the security environment, pockets of mistrust among affected populations, and poor infection prevention and control in many public and private health facilities. Under the government’s leadership and working collaboratively with UN and NGO partners, WHO is committed to addressing these challenges and ending the outbreak

This is an invitation to participate in the WHO global survey on the current level of progress of infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes and hand hygiene activities in health care facilities in the context of the annual WHO hand hygiene global campaign (5 May 2019). This survey will be open for four months from 16 January to 16 May 2019.